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Did this turn out?

@Agent - we have another batch going. Middle carboy without the cucumber lime salad.

Okay we got a 5 gallon fermenter full of a light summer style beer wort mashed at 143F for 1-1/2 hrs. We put in 3 oz of chunky zest and five cucumbers. Nobody posted pictures, so I'm putting one in here for reference. Reference. I'll try to remember to come back and let you know how it turns...

@sibelman how small of chunks please? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/cucumber-in-beer.226450/page-2 This popped up again today.... I went as far as buying cukes.

How about flip-tops, Fischer, Grolsch, etc?

Ok, so seven years zombie thread resurrection. I've been gifted about 3 gallons of pears. They're not ripe. I saw a comment about placing them in covered buckets in the garage to "sweat" and ripen. There was quite a bit of conjecture on how much pear flavor would come through. I want to make...

I still have some of this batch. It's more heat than I care for. I need to box it up and give it to the friends who requested it.

I would do this again in a heartbeat. It took longer to bottle condition, but when it smoothed out, it was really enjoyable.

I reached an age for my three adult sons. Talk to me about my brewing adventures. My oldest just asked me about a braggot tonight. I had always just thought of it is not-beer. This thread makes it sound fairly interesting. I especially like the last post where it comes off as a light American...

...threads with no answers... It sounds to me like you have a great deal of the knowledge required. Me personally, I'd want to hire out the accounting.

...lovely.

https://zythophile.co.uk/2016/04/20/a-short-history-of-spruce-beer-part-two-the-north-american-connection/